Matter of GuideOne Specialty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Cruz

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75 to permanently stay arbitration, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Pitts, J.), dated August 27, 2015, which denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the petition to permanently stay arbitration is granted.

The respondent William Sierra Cruz was involved in a car accident in which his vehicle was hit in the rear by a vehicle driven by nonparty Brendon Knapp. The vehicle Cruz was driving was insured by the petitioner, GuideOne Specialty…